Mothers Union

(Christian Care for Families Worldwide)

The Mothers Union is the largest Christian Organisation in the world with over four million members in 83 countries. Darfield Branch was founded in 1910. Our meetings are held fortnightly, 1st and 3rd Thursday of a Month (excluding August) in the Church Hall at 18:45.We have a short devotional service with hymns, Bible reading and prayers, followed by a good speaker. The speakers are from all walks of life so we really get a good insight of what is going on around us. The meeting concludes with a cup of tea and cakes and there is always time for a chat with one another. Our speakers often tell us there is a lovely warm atmosphere at our service and that they would like to come again. The Mothers Union is a wonderful organisation which seeks to promote Christian values in the sphere of marriage and family life. It has many wonderful projects. We would love to see you at our meetings and you can be sure of a very warm welcome, men too, we do have male members which is wonderful! Please contact the Branch Coordinator, Tel: 01226 752630.

Transcribers needed

We are starting on an exciting new project to create a Burial Ground Management System with the help of Atlantic Geomatics Ltd. Atlantic Geomatics have already created an accurate plan of our churchyard including all headstones and trees. We have now photographed all our burial registers and uploaded them onto the new system. The next action is to transcribe these burial registers into the system so that details can then be matched up headstones and a search facility created. Further enhancements would then follow.

So....we are now need volunteers to transcribe the burial registers. We already have a number of willing volunteers but can always use more. The work can be done anywhere and by anyone so long as they have access to the internet and the ability to type in details. The photographs of the burial register come up on screen together with the boxes to be completed for transcribing. Even if you are reading this in Australia you can still join in.